If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else

Marvin Gaye

Serenity isn’t freedom from the storm, but peace within the storm.

Unknown Sources

Spirit works on a full-time basis

Unknown Sources

Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect, it means that you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections.

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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within

Maya Angelou

Go behind the apparent circumstances of the situation and locate the love in yourself and in all others involved in the situation

Mother Teresa

Go within and find what you’ve been searching outside yourself to find.

Unknown Source

When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.

Ancient Arapaho proverb

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can’t speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.

Qwatsinas

Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect, it means that you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections.

Unknown Source

Success

Saying or Verse

Source

If you are willing to deal with the past, you can make the moment you are in rich

Oprah Winfrey

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Oprah Winfrey

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

True power comes through cooperation and silence.

Ashanti proverb

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

Black Elk

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Persistence breaks down resistance.

Unknown Source

If you are going to play the game properly, you’d better know every Rule.

Barbara Jordan

Success sometimes depends on having a chance, or taking one.

Unknown Source

If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success.

Malcolm X

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is a process; working together is a success.

Henry Ford

Tested

Saying or Verse

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Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to test you.

1 Peter 4:12

Thankfulness

Saying or Verse

Source

Feeling grateful for each thing in your life is a great way to open the heart and let the Spirit slip in

Adapted from Awakening Your Spirituality, Jonathan Robinson

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for the Lord is good! The Lord’s mercy endures forever.

Psalm 136:1 (adapted)

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Psalm 139:14

Thought, Thinking

Saying or Verse

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Buddha

It is more important to understand than to be understood.

Bill Russell

Trouble

If you have no critics, you’ll likely have no success.

Malcolm X

There is no better [lesson] than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its own how toimprove your performance the next time.

Malcolm X

Value(s)

Saying or Verse

Source

It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold

Arthur Ashe

Don’t find fault, find remedy.

Henry Ford

A mind is like a parachute; it only serves it purpose when it’s open.

Unknown Sources

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

Cesar Chavez

Waking up

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Vision & Planning

If you sail without a chart, you may return without a ship

Unknown Source

A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.

Crazy Horse

Waiting

Saying or Verse

Source

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 40:31 (adapted)

Work

Saying or Verse

Source

What doth it profit, my brethren (sisters), though one say he (she) hath faith, and have not works?

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